undersong

Example Sentences

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The undersong of Dot’s unconscious gets lost in all the quotidian bustle.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2023

The undersong here is underplumage: those jewel-like greens and purples and reds you can spot beneath the oil-slick surface of certain black-feathered birds.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017

And yet to you and not to me belong   Those finer instincts that, like second sight And hearing, catch creation's undersong,       And see by inner light.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean

So ended she; and all the rest around To her redoubled that her undersong*, 110 Which said, their brydale daye should not be long: And gentle Eccho from the neighbour ground Their accents did resound.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

Beneath the chorus of their hearts' joy there was an undersong of discord; and neither knew of the other's perplexity.

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir